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river on the coast, but it has been so poached and bedevilled 

 with nets, torches, seines, and all sorts of things, that it is 

 comparatively nothing to what it was, — still I intend to fish 

 it this year, and if any American gentlemen should happen to 

 visit the ground, I shall be very happy to show them where a 

 good cast may be obtained. 



"I may as well remark, that although the Moisie is a large 

 river, there is really not room for more than three rods, upon 

 such posts as I have hitherto discovered, without interfering 

 with each other." 



Either the Moisie or Mingan is now leased by two or three 

 gentlemen of Boston, who fish it every summer. The last 

 season is said to have been one of rare sport ; a great many 

 fish were killed, many of them of unusual size, — two or 

 three over thirty pounds. 



Two Salmon-fishers of St. John, N. B., last summer made 

 an excursion to the coast of Labrador. They called in their 

 schooner at Bathurst for boats and to get canoe-men ; one 

 of the latter on his return gave a glowing account of the sport 

 which these gentlemen had. A brother of the rod at St. John 

 promised to send me an account of the trip. I regret I am 

 obliged to send this to press before hearing from him, 



SALMON-RIVERS OF NEW BRUNSWICK, AND THOSE OF 

 CANADA ADJACENT. 



In giving a list of Salmon-rivers under this bead, I will 

 only advert to those in which the angler has a hope of sport. 

 Those in which the rod-fishing has been destroyed, by net, 

 spear, and high dams, I pass over, and refer the reader, who 

 wishes information about Salmon-fisheries as a matter of com- 

 mercial or statistical importance, to Mr. Perley's report of the 

 British fisheries of New Brunswick, I shall first mention 

 the rivers which have been described to me by others, and 



